Intro to Relationship Abuse & a Wild Week

Students were introduced to the Dating Abuse lesson by first learning of the term Gaslighting. This is a form of psychological abuse and manipulation that seeks to plant seeds of doubt in a targeted individual, making them question their own memory, validity, perception, and sanity.

We talked about examples the you can hear such as:

You're being crazy

Are you on your period or something

That never happened

You're being too emotional

Why are you trying to create a problem

It was just a joke, it's not that serious

Videos we used to help ensure comprehension:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF_YTFgHFtM

 Tutoring Tuesday Views

3rd block group piiiiiic! 

Tutoring day vibes- the infamous mentee/mentor duo 

After the events that happened in the Denver area last week we used this scale for each class when they entered the room so that we could gauge where they were at with their emotions regarding the levels of high stress, fear, and anxiety that may have been hindering them feeling comfortable at school and ready to learn. Shout out to Sara for the idea! We talked openly in circle talk about mental health, gun violence, and suicide. Also the importance of reaching out for help if you need it and checking in on your friends.

To help us all cope with the stress the event brought on and the stress that they are feeling as we approach the end of the year, we all made stress balls and each mentor leader lead a lesson on coping with stress and anxiety. They each chose a different video to show each of their classes that they felt they would relate to. For example, Cece chose this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBsHxfHXFS8


And pictured at the top of this blog post are some 4th block girls and their stress balls made of balloons and flour. Many of them popped theirs over the weekend so that lasted long............

This event stifled the continuation of our Dating Abuse lesson but that will continue this week.

19 days until graduation
4 Fridays left for Seniors

You're welcome

<3 YESS at ACHS

Prom, LuNcHeOn, and Hot Buttons

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Time is going by so fast we can barely keep up! Between Prom last weekend, PSAT Testing (which took up most of last week), Hot Buttons, Mentor Leader meetings and hang outs, and the YESS Luncheon we are EXHAUSTED but happy to be busy.

Highlights pictured:
-4th block seniors and 4th block students requested a pic to remember our class by
-Prom- Castro and her friend/date in flexin on all of us in Canadian Tuxedos
-Mentor Leaders cooking and hanging out at Jackie's house after the ML Meeting at Westy last week.
-YESS Luncheon where we sat with DaviD Bruton, Listened to Cece's beautiful speech, raised $bread$ for YESS, and saw Castro spill a pitcher of water
-Taught about stressors, triggers, trauma, and hot buttons using balloons. We got to fill up our balloons with our hot buttons and pop them as a therapeutic exercise showing how to turn them into cool buttons

25 days until graduation
6 Fridays left

Weather Happens Every Day <3

signing off,
C251 Squad

Vids and Pics Galore ! Pre&Post Spring Break

A VISUAL UPDATE OF LIFE IN ACHS YESS THE PAST 2 WEEKS:::::

Mentor leaders have been having fun at their meetings! We are BFFS!!! BFFS WHO GET THINGS DONE FOR YESS ACHS!

BEFORE SPRING BREAK BLOCK 6 HAD A TALENT SHOW FOR FINISHING THEIR PROJECTS EARLY

BE THANKFUL WE ARE BLESSING YOU WITH PICS AND VIDS FROM THIS SACRED DAY OF PURE TALENT

A WHOLE BOY BAND

ADRIAN AND THEO PERFORM A MOZART PIECE 

CHA CHA SLIZZY

MENTOR LEADER IMPORTANT MEETING TINGS

Castro took shalayah and Sharmaine rock climbing before we got out for break. It was a work out that completely blew out our arms to where we couldn't even hold a pencil the next day. thanks for that!

THE VOICE OR C251 TALENT SHOW?

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POST SPRING BREAK:

POST SPRING BREAK ACTIVITY (last week) TO BRING US CLOSER AS A CLASS

WE DID THE AGREE/DISAGREE LINE GAME AS SEEN ON VIRAL YOUTUBE VIDEO

MANY DEBATES WERE HAD! WE LOVED THIS ACTIVITY AND HOW IT GOT US MOVING AND THINKING AND BONDING

(we could choose agree, somewhat agree, strongly agree, disagree, somewhat disagree, strongly disagree)

some statements we were encouraged to take a stance on:

• I am addicted to social media
• i feel too much stress for my age
• i care about current events
• teenagers have more unfluence than previous generations
• everyone should be a feminist
• i wish i could fastforward through my teenage years
• cell phones distract me in school
• when I am old enough I will care about voting
• climate change is real
• aliens are real
• social media has a positive impact on relationships
• fortnite is good for your brain

VIDEO REFERENCE :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5deuuSZbr0&t=417s

MIAH MADE THIS CAKE FOR 3RD PERIOD FOR LITERALLY NO REASON! JUST BECAUSE SHE LOVES US AND WANTS TO KEEP US FED! 

SERVING DAT CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE

```ONTO CURRICULUM LESSONS THIS WEEK AFTER PSAT TESTING!````

PROM PICS TO COME ALSO

6 FRIDAYS AND 27 DAYS UNTIL GRADUATION LEFT

PEACE AND BLESSINGS,

YESS AT ACHS

Belief Research and THE BOMB CYCLONE

In 5..4..3..2.. And were back at it with the daily vlogs its me icarly and ive missed you guys. Quick rant here. we just had a 5 day break from school because OF SNOW. The first time snow has done something good for us, but now we got a lot of homework. ): i wish i could be one of the readers reading this right now.

Last week we read articles about limiting and empowering Beliefs. Each of us would interact with each article try to comprehend, put it in our own words, and reflect on it. We figured out the most important thing of each article, and why it was important for us. We were paired with groups and presented our article with a PSA poster. We determined the importance of each concept and this week we get to put it into art on a poster and present it to our stans.

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love you bennyaterz ('my stans"/my followers/ fans) 

keep your head up, your tiara is falling. <3

Lizbeth

Intro to Belief Systems and Scholarships

Last week was a test for all of us mentor leaders as it was the first time for us to introduce a new lesson all on our own without Castro's co teaching help. It went really well for all of us! We have been meeting twice a week now so we can plan for our lessons and practice teaching to eachother. This week we moved on from apple pie to talk about belief systems and the true power of words. We talked about how belief systems influence our daily lifes and decsions too. We did a circle talk discussing what core belief systems we all have and even just tried to talk about guessing wha tthat is. After we defined it and watched a motivational video we did a really fun activity, it was the highlight of the week. We did musical chairs with notecards on each chair and when someone sat down they had to pick up the card that had a word, for example the word FAMILY or MONEY and then on the handout I would give them time to write what the belief means to them, how it relates to the importance in their lives. We did this until we got a winner in each class and we got prizes for them like a cup of lime hot cheetos for my class. We discussed negativity bias also, talking about how we all have the choice to look at situations through a certain negative or positive perspective. This came back to the Today I Choose lesson that we did a long time ago. We all chose things that we want for ourselves just this week, so goals. This makes me think of how stressed the seniors were to complete institutional scholarships by the deadline and also the YESS scholarship which ms Castro made every senior apply so Monday and Friday seniors were seperated from everyone else doing tutoring so that she could help answer any questions for them and give them peace and quiet to focus on submitting scholarships because we are all going to get this bread.

stay tuned for next week sisters!

Here are some musical chairs craziness for you

Musical chairs! Pause music! Find a seat! Reflection time! Repeat!

The orange fedora is a blessing to our class

Honestly this pic really says it all

Gooddluck to shalayah who will be starting at Lester Arnold this week to finish her credits so she can graduate on time. We will miss her every day at lunch and we will miss having to tell her to go to class when she tries to sneak into our classroom with a bathroom pass from another class. We will also miss watching her eat an entire cake from the box and talking about how she can't breath after climbing 3 stairs. We love you dont forget your roots!!!!!!!!!!!

Relationships & Apple Pie

Last week we learned about doing your part in relationships through the metaphor of apple pie.

We taught about the different kinds of relationships- family, friends, romantic, co-workers, things like that. We discovered who we are in these relationships by asking ourselves to reflect on a quote for the question of the day and also filling out a survey that told us whether we were A, B, or C type of pie eater. A was a whole pie eater or someone who does a lot in the relationship and can be taken advantage of easily or burns out and maybe can be controlling, B was a balanced pie eater which means you give and take in a healthy way, C was a pie crumb eater so someone who doesn't do a lot in relationships and can play the victim often and blame others and even be lazy. We also shared 3 relationships in our life where we are all 3 of these types, it is pretty impossible to be balanced all across the board but we discussed what it takes to have a healthy half pie eaten relationship with everyone important to us in our lifes. What are the ingredients for a healthy relationship with positive communication? We expored this question more with skits where we were randomly given one type of relationship and with our groups had to demonstrate this relationship and come to a consequence for each type. Then the whole class had to guess which type of pie eater this scenario was trying to show. It was so fun, funny, and educational!!! We loved the skits the best. 

AND WE GOT REAL APPLE PIE!!!! THANKS EVELYN!!!!

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